Research Guide to American Literature

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Tom LeClair, “Closing the Loop: White Noise,” in his In the Loop: Don DeLillo and t ...

(1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Yet, her literary reputation rests most solidly on her nonfiction, which extends fr ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present 1960s, a literary movement that applied the techniques of fiction writers (scene, d ...

through California history, she evokes the vitality of events (the wagon trains, the railroads, the gold rush) and people ( Josi ...

20 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Artists of Nonf iction (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990), which compares Did ...

not merely depict cultural changes but also the effect of those changes on women, an interest that could be described as feminis ...

210 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present Criticism Bruce Bawer, “Didion’s Dreamwork,” Hudson Review, 60 (Spring 2007): 85–10 ...

Mark Royden Winchell, Joan Didion, revised edition (Boston: Twayne, 1989). A study of Didion’s life and work with valuable notes ...

212 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present calling into question the “reality” Doctorow and his narrator create, which, in tur ...

to first-person plural, using “we” to refer to the WASP family. Most interesting is the way the narrator filters the past throug ...

21 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present sees “rags” as a metaphor for poverty. Marshall Bruce Gentry highlights gender repr ...

“objective” versions of histories in his interviews with Weinstein and, in Morris’s Conversations with E. L. Doctorow, with Levi ...

21 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present RESOURCES Primary Works Boris Kachka, “E. L. Doctorow on Ragtime,” New York, 41 (14 ...

Discusses the “paradoxical” treatment of gender in The Waterworks, in which women are “praiseworthy but silenced,” and uses that ...

21 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present David Segal, “The Time Travels of E. L. Doctorow,” Washington Post, 1 October 2005 ...

In 1979 Dove married German-born writer Fred Viebahn, whom she met at the University of Iowa; they have one daughter. Dove has t ...

220 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present For her third book, Thomas and Beulah (1986), Dove depicts in forty-four poems the ...

movement. In an interview with Malin Pereira (in Earl G. Ingersoll, ed., pp. 148–173), she states: “I have nothing against anyon ...

222 Contemporary Literature, 1970 to Present the series of poems titled “On the Bus with Rosa Parks” (in the collection of the s ...

Robb St. Lawrence, “‘Taking the Cards You’re Dealt and Building a House’: An Interview with Rita Dove,” Bellingham Review, 29 (F ...